Kuorisen came to his parents’ home town of Lawra from Techiman and started school in P1 aged five. Along the way he dropped out of school to do farming. He lost his father and his mother lives in the south, so he has lived with his father’s older brother for the past 4 years. When he was 14 years old his uncle sat him down and advised him to continue with his education and that is when he returned to school. Asked whether he has observed any difference in the school since the school feeding programme has been in place, he said that there used to be a lot of hunger but now he and his classmates can eat, get energy from the food and learn.
Kuorisen reiterates his gratitude to ATE’s supporters for the provision of the free school meal program.
He also notices that the school is now overcrowded – he knows a lot of people like himself who dropped out and came back to school when the feeding started. He is grateful to have benefited from a free school uniform, books, pencils and health insurance and would like to be a teacher himself in future.